audio player not working

[alexwalker]

I can download the file but not play it direct using the audio player. Any suggestions ? I have admintools installed and created a htaccess file with it. I am using jdownloads 3.2.62 The audio player used to work until I used a new Joomlashack template. Please see the file here: https://modernchurch.org.uk/downloads/download/33-2017/882-woodhead-2017

[ColinM]

Hi
In jd Config - Media tab you will see a warning"Important! Check that field 'Protect your Download-directory?' in Config - Security tab is set to No" What the security does is include a local .htaccess in the root directory whose contents are

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Options -Indexes
deny from all
So please check the option is set to NoAnd of course check that your own main .htaccess file in the Joomla root does not have code like above - the two 'lines' in the code could be far apart.
Colin

[alexwalker]

Please can you let me know if there is anything here in the htaccess file which may cause the issue :

### ===========================================================================
### Security Enhanced & Highly Optimized .htaccess File for Joomla!
### automatically generated by Admin Tools 5.1.3 on 2018-08-28 14:30:01 BST
### Auto-detected Apache version: 2.5 (best guess)
### ===========================================================================
###
### The contents of this file are based on the same author's work "Master
### .htaccess".
###
### Admin Tools is Free Software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
### General Public License version 3 or, at your option, any later version
### published by the Free Software Foundation.
###
### !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IMPORTANT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
### !!                                                                       !!
### !!  If you get an Internal Server Error 500 or a blank page when trying  !!
### !!  to access your site, remove this file and try tweaking its settings  !!
### !!  in the back-end of the Admin Tools component.                        !!
### !!                                                                       !!
### !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
###

##### RewriteEngine enabled - BEGIN
RewriteEngine On
##### RewriteEngine enabled - END

##### RewriteBase set - BEGIN
RewriteBase /
##### RewriteBase set - END

##### Custom Rules (Top of File) -- BEGIN
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

   RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R,L]

    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
##### Custom Rules (Top of File) -- END

##### File execution order -- BEGIN
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
##### File execution order -- END

##### No directory listings -- BEGIN
IndexIgnore *
Options -Indexes
##### No directory listings -- END

##### Redirect index.php to / -- BEGIN
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^POST
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT}>s ^(443>(s)|[0-9]+>s)$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http%2://www.modernchurch.org.uk/ [R=301,L]
##### Redirect index.php to / -- END
##### Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits -- BEGIN
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} proc/self/environ [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_(en|de)code\(.*\) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C).*script.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
RewriteRule .* index.php [F]
##### Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits -- END
##### File injection protection -- BEGIN
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [a-zA-Z0-9_]=http?:// [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [a-zA-Z0-9_]=(\.\.//?)+ [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} [a-zA-Z0-9_]=/([a-z0-9_.]//?)+ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
##### File injection protection -- END

##### Advanced server protection rules exceptions -- BEGIN
RewriteRule ^administrator\/components\/com_akeeba\/restore\.php$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^administrator\/components\/com_admintools\/restore\.php$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^administrator\/components\/com_joomlaupdate\/restore\.php$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^administrator\/components\/com_extplorer\/fetchscript\.php$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^downloads\/download$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^templates\/protostar/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^templates\/Js_alasse/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^templates\/js_breezy/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^plugins\/system\/bfnetwork/ - [L]
##### Advanced server protection rules exceptions -- END

##### Advanced server protection -- BEGIN

## Disable PHP Easter Eggs
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \=PHP[a-f0-9]{8}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{12} [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
#### Back-end protection
RewriteRule ^administrator/?$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^administrator/index\.(php|html?)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^administrator/(components|modules|templates|images|plugins|downloads)/.*\.(jpe|jpg|jpeg|jp2|jpe2|png|gif|bmp|css|js|swf|html|mpg|mp3|mpeg|mp4|avi|wav|ogg|ogv|xls|xlsx|doc|docx|ppt|pptx|zip|rar|pdf|xps|txt|7z|svg|odt|ods|odp|flv|mov|htm|ttf|woff|eot|JPG|JPEG|PNG|GIF|CSS|JS|TTF|WOFF|EOT)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^administrator/ - [F]
#### Front-end protection
## Allow limited access for certain directories with client-accessible content
RewriteRule ^(components|modules|templates|images|plugins|media|libraries|media/jui/fonts)/.*\.(jpe|jpg|jpeg|jp2|jpe2|png|gif|bmp|css|js|swf|html|mpg|mp3|mpeg|mp4|avi|wav|ogg|ogv|xls|xlsx|doc|docx|ppt|pptx|zip|rar|pdf|xps|txt|7z|svg|odt|ods|odp|flv|mov|ico|htm|ttf|woff|eot|JPG|JPEG|PNG|GIF|CSS|JS|TTF|WOFF|EOT)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(components|modules|templates|images|plugins|media|libraries|media/jui/fonts)/ - [F]
## Disallow front-end access for certain Joomla! system directories (unless access to their files is allowed above)
RewriteRule ^includes/js/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(cache|includes|language|logs|log|tmp)/ - [F]
RewriteRule ^(configuration\.php|CONTRIBUTING\.md|htaccess\.txt|joomla\.xml|LICENSE\.txt|phpunit\.xml|README\.txt|web\.config\.txt) - [F]

## Explicitly allow access to the site's index.php main entry point file
RewriteRule ^index.php(/.*){0,1}$ - [L]
## Explicitly allow access to the site's robots.txt file
RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ - [L]

## Disallow access to all other PHP files throughout the site, unless they are explicitly allowed
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (\.php)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule (.*\.php)$ - [F]
## Disallow access to htaccess.txt, php.ini, .user.ini and configuration.php-dist
RewriteRule ^(htaccess\.txt|configuration\.php-dist|php\.ini|\.user\.ini)$ - [F]
# Disallow access to all other front-end folders
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/
RewriteRule .* - [F]

# Disallow access to all other front-end files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule !^index.php$ - [F]
## Protect against clickjacking
<IfModule mod_headers.c>

   Header always append X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN

   # The `X-Frame-Options` response header should be send only for
   # HTML documents and not for the other resources.

   <FilesMatch "\.(appcache|atom|bbaw|bmp|crx|css|cur|eot|f4[abpv]|flv|geojson|gif|htc|ico|jpe?g|js|json(ld)?|m4[av]|manifest|map|mp4|oex|og[agv]|opus|otf|pdf|png|rdf|rss|safariextz|svgz?|swf|topojson|tt[cf]|txt|vcard|vcf|vtt|webapp|web[mp]|woff2?|xloc|xml|xpi)$">
      Header unset X-Frame-Options
   </FilesMatch>

</IfModule>
## Reduce MIME type security risks
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
   Header set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"
</IfModule>
## Reflected XSS prevention
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"
</IfModule>

# mod_headers cannot match based on the content-type, however,
# the X-XSS-Protection response header should be send only for
# HTML documents and not for the other resources.

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
   <FilesMatch "\.(appcache|atom|bbaw|bmp|crx|css|cur|eot|f4[abpv]|flv|geojson|gif|htc|ico|jpe?g|js|json(ld)?|m4[av]|manifest|map|mp4|oex|og[agv]|opus|otf|pdf|png|rdf|rss|safariextz|svgz?|swf|topojson|tt[cf]|txt|vcard|vcf|vtt|webapp|web[mp]|webmanifest|woff2?|xloc|xml|xpi)$">
      Header unset X-XSS-Protection
   </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
## Remove Apache and PHP version signature
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
   Header unset X-Powered-By
</IfModule>

ServerSignature Off
## Prevent content transformation
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
   Header merge Cache-Control "no-transform"
</IfModule>
##### Advanced server protection -- END

## Referrer-policy
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
   Header always set Referrer-Policy "unsafe-url"
</IfModule>
## Set the UTF-8 character set as the default
#  Serve all resources labeled as `text/html` or `text/plain`
#  with the media type `charset` parameter set to `UTF-8`.

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

# Serve the following file types with the media type `charset`
# parameter set to `UTF-8`.
#
# https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_mime.html#addcharset

<IfModule mod_mime.c>
   AddCharset utf-8 .atom \
                .bbaw \
                .css \
                .geojson \
                .js \
                .json \
                .jsonld \
                .rdf \
                .rss \
                .topojson \
                .vtt \
                .webapp \
                .xloc \
                .xml
</IfModule>
##### Joomla! core SEF Section -- BEGIN
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
##### Joomla! core SEF Section -- END

[ColinM]

Hi
At first site your htaccess looks OK but I am define=itely not an htaccess expert.
Did you do the security tab setting to No in jD config.
Otherwise I suggest you contact the template people or your hosting site
Colin

[Arno]

Hi,
the htaccess above is from the wrong folder. It is from the Joomla root folder.